The ZIP_VMS package is a ZOO archive of VMS executables for portable
ZIP and UNZIP, and for the utilities ZIPNOTE, ZIPSPLIT and SHIP. They were
linked under VMS v5.1 with the shared C library, so as to be portable across
that and higher versions of VMS. The RUNOFF sources ZIP.RNH and UNZIP.RNH for
creating VMS online help library modules also are included. The seven files
were created by Hunter Goatley from the network distributions of ZIP v1.0 and
UNZIP v4.1, and were obtained from his fileserver as described in his posting
to INFO-VAX:
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The portable ZIP v1.0 was posted to comp.binaries.misc in UNIX .shar format.
I unshar'ed them, compiled them, wrote VMS on-line help for them, and have
made them available from WKUVX1.
ZIP is a file compression and archiver program frequently used under MS-DOS.
Portable ZIP runs under UNIX, MS-DOS, OS/2, and VMS.
As I've created it, the package includes the C sources for ZIP *and* UNZIP
(from the INFO-Zip group). The only thing I did was add ZIP.RNH and
UNZIP.RNH (RUNOFF source files for the on-line help) and repackage them
together using VMS_SHARE.
For those of you without C compilers, I've also created a package of the
ZIP and UNZIP .EXE files for VMS. They were linked under VMS v5.1. You
can get any of the packages by sending e-mail with a body of one or more of
the following lines to FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET:
SEND ZIP-UNZIP (ZIP and UNZIP sources)
SEND ZIP_EXE (ZIP and UNZIP .EXEs)
SEND FILESERV_TOOLS (Needed to unpack ZIP_EXE)
Just thought I'd make it easier for VMS sites to get these....
Hunter
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Hunter Goatley, VAX Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet, 502-745-5251
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The seven files will be extracted from the ZOO archive in stream_LF
record format. You can run the executables that way, but they'll run more
efficiently if you use ZOO's BILF utility to make them FIXED 512, and VMS's
CONVERT utility to make them BEST TRY CONTIGUOUS. Read your ZOO doc set if
you don't know how to do these things.
Good Luck,
Fote
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